RealPlayer 11 Streaming Video Ripper Tested

We posted earlier this month that Real was planning to release RealPlayer 11 with the capability of ripping online streams, such as YouTube, MySpace, Revver and more. Well, the beta has finally been released and Ars Technica wasted no time in giving it a spin. Their verdict is that it’s overall a very useful feature, but needs a little bit of work for certain kinds of video. All I can say is.. please Real, bring this beta to other platforms, not just Windows.

Clicking on the context menu or the Download This Video button automatically brings up a download manager screen, which saves the stream to the directory specified in RealPlayer’s configuration. Downloading works in slightly different ways depending on the type of stream being saved: Flash files from YouTube downloaded as quickly as they could be retrieved from the server, while a Windows Media Video file from Channel 9 would only download in the same time as it would have taken to watch it.

Source: Ars Technica